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Long story short, short story long.
Winter break, son has a car (mommy bought it for her son), son sees a newer car (all the way over in Hayward)
2008 VW GTI (low-ish mileage). Mommy buys sonny boy the GTI (me unaware). What’s done is done.
About six weeks later, GTI transmission fails and son goes (crying) to mommy because he’s attached to his car and has really good memories of it (or in it). Mommy bought sonny boy a car “as is” from a dealership in the east bay because he kept on bugging her... In the mean time I still have hopes on fixing my Civic’s issue.
Kid takes the car to a mechanic and yes, transmission failure. Dealer assumes no responsibility and wife and son are screwed, wife says is son’s fault because he begged for the car, me? I stay out because I’m not the one who wiped his bottom with over $6500.00 greenbacks!!
Wife pays for a parking spot at home but since sonny boy’s car can’t be operated, he parks the car there, wife is furious because of the huge hassle it is to park a car on the street and having to move it once in a while for street cleaning (she kept the other boring-gray Golf for herself)
I feel bad for the kid, he is my son after all. I don’t think I ever gave my mother my share of trouble (dad was gone since I was 6) but my mother and si lings have helpme when I’ve needed so it goes the same for my sonn not that he deserves it but because he’s my son.
In the way of asking, is the way of giving; or so I’ve been telling my family and so far, my daughter gets it crystal clear.
Did some research, lots of reading and scanned the vehicle’s computer for the errors. Transmission is a dual-clutch (semi automatic) DSG and they seem to have their more than fair share of trouble.
All points to a bad Mechatronic unit (easy-ish for me to deal with) it’s the internal unit with the shifting solenoids or commonly known as valve body.
Pricey piece of equipment but compared to the dealership or an independent shop, I took the task of replacing the faulty unit.
YouTube University, some more reading and out it came from the transmission casing. Had to wait for a reconditioned unit to arrive (after I tested the solenoids and they were all in good condition, deduction was the electronic components inside of it and that’s a don’t try it for me so I orderd one)
New oil, filter since the job calls for it.
A month or do after, finally I put the things back together, yesterday I found the car has no power-steering, missed a ground cable that belongs to the electr-power steering (new to me). This morning with my mind a bit more clear than yesterday, backtracked my steps and saw the ground wire aside where it was supposed to be grounded. Voila!! Error gone. Take the car out for a test drive and boom!! Same stupid error; car disengaged gears, no reverse no forward; basically the same thing.
I have a cheap eBay scanner specific for VW since my brother has a Golf, wife has a Golf and now son has a Golf. It helped me (the scanner) in the past to deal with my brother’s Golf, smaller things of the VAG family of vehicles. I used the scanner to test some things in the transmission but is a very basic model/version so I cannot perform other tests/programming of the Mechatronic and I’m stuck plus the wife wants her parkingspot back.
Does anyone has a VAG-COM unit that I could borrow to give a shot at re-programming the transmission valve body? Or a pointer to someone that knows VW/Audi where I can go for help?
Next thing in the VW saga would be a bad clutch and that means the transmission must come down...
Now for the long story short, spolier alert...
Winter break, son has a car (mommy bought it for her son), son sees a newer car (all the way over in Hayward)
2008 VW GTI (low-ish mileage). Mommy buys sonny boy the GTI (me unaware). What’s done is done.
About six weeks later, GTI transmission fails and son goes (crying) to mommy because he’s attached to his car and has really good memories of it (or in it). Mommy bought sonny boy a car “as is” from a dealership in the east bay because he kept on bugging her... In the mean time I still have hopes on fixing my Civic’s issue.
Kid takes the car to a mechanic and yes, transmission failure. Dealer assumes no responsibility and wife and son are screwed, wife says is son’s fault because he begged for the car, me? I stay out because I’m not the one who wiped his bottom with over $6500.00 greenbacks!!
Wife pays for a parking spot at home but since sonny boy’s car can’t be operated, he parks the car there, wife is furious because of the huge hassle it is to park a car on the street and having to move it once in a while for street cleaning (she kept the other boring-gray Golf for herself)
I feel bad for the kid, he is my son after all. I don’t think I ever gave my mother my share of trouble (dad was gone since I was 6) but my mother and si lings have helpme when I’ve needed so it goes the same for my sonn not that he deserves it but because he’s my son.
In the way of asking, is the way of giving; or so I’ve been telling my family and so far, my daughter gets it crystal clear.
Did some research, lots of reading and scanned the vehicle’s computer for the errors. Transmission is a dual-clutch (semi automatic) DSG and they seem to have their more than fair share of trouble.
All points to a bad Mechatronic unit (easy-ish for me to deal with) it’s the internal unit with the shifting solenoids or commonly known as valve body.
Pricey piece of equipment but compared to the dealership or an independent shop, I took the task of replacing the faulty unit.
YouTube University, some more reading and out it came from the transmission casing. Had to wait for a reconditioned unit to arrive (after I tested the solenoids and they were all in good condition, deduction was the electronic components inside of it and that’s a don’t try it for me so I orderd one)
New oil, filter since the job calls for it.
A month or do after, finally I put the things back together, yesterday I found the car has no power-steering, missed a ground cable that belongs to the electr-power steering (new to me). This morning with my mind a bit more clear than yesterday, backtracked my steps and saw the ground wire aside where it was supposed to be grounded. Voila!! Error gone. Take the car out for a test drive and boom!! Same stupid error; car disengaged gears, no reverse no forward; basically the same thing.
I have a cheap eBay scanner specific for VW since my brother has a Golf, wife has a Golf and now son has a Golf. It helped me (the scanner) in the past to deal with my brother’s Golf, smaller things of the VAG family of vehicles. I used the scanner to test some things in the transmission but is a very basic model/version so I cannot perform other tests/programming of the Mechatronic and I’m stuck plus the wife wants her parkingspot back.
Does anyone has a VAG-COM unit that I could borrow to give a shot at re-programming the transmission valve body? Or a pointer to someone that knows VW/Audi where I can go for help?
Next thing in the VW saga would be a bad clutch and that means the transmission must come down...
Now for the long story short, spolier alert...
